Posted by Jon Slaughter on 03/24/07 13:21

"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
news:95a41$46049c37$40cba7cb$11956@NAXS.COM...
> Jon Slaughter wrote:
>
>>
>> A site I found uses display:block and display:unknown
>
> There is *no* property "display: known"
>

yeah, I ment none.

>> or all child lists inside the link.
>
> You cannot put "block" elements withing an "A" element.

No, I ment that inside the lists. Each element in the list is a link or
another list.

>> It works in IE7 and FF 2.0 but not sure about IE6. They
>
> Pseudo class :hover only works on "A" elements in MSIE <=6 (not sure if 7
> now supports it. For MSIE your either have to supplement with JavaScript
> or an HTA file.
>

Yeah, this is the issue that the site was dealing with.

>> mention something about having to use behaviors to get it to work there
>> but I'm probably just going to take the easy route and require a modern
>> browser to view my site.
>
> DIV.peekaboo DIV { display: none; }
> DIV.peekaboo:hover DIV { display: block; }
>
>
> <div class="peekaboo">
> The nested DIV will appear when you hover a mouse over
> me in a modern web browser...
> <div>Hello World!</div>
> </div>
>

Ok, thanks. This was essentially what the code I was looking at was doing
but with lists instead. I was initially trying to use the visibility
property but that didn't work so well.

Thanks,
Jon

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